French Revolution in Yellow!!!
A popular movement full of cracking and smashing stores fronts, burning cars and colliding with police by all means available, with chaos and disorder in the streets.
With the results of opinion polls in France that more than 80 percent of the French support these movements are not indifferent to the alleged acts attributed to it.
The popular demands began weeks ago with the demand to cancel the new taxes on fuel, and it escalated on Saturday to call the President of the Republic to resign through the dissolution of the National Assembly and the reform or change the political system.
The clashes between security forces and protesters known as “yellow jackets” erupted on Saturday evening, December 1 in Paris.
Earlier, CNews reported that the number of people injured in clashes between police and protesters protesting a rise in fuel prices in Paris rose to 65, including 11 police.
Riot police in France fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who tried to break the security cordon on the capital’s famous Champs-Elysées to protest rising living costs and fuel prices.
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said that more than 100 protesters were arrested, while the transport department in Paris closed 7 subway stations in anticipation of violent protests.
On Saturday, the administration said three stations on Champs-Elysées (Franklin Roosevelt, George 5 and Clemenceau), as well as the Concorde and Teolère stations, as well as the Charles de Gaulle Etoile station, Victory, and the station “Argentina” located near the same place.
French television channel LCI reported that French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, the Paris police chief and other officials had arrived at Champs-Elysées where they welcomed police officers who would ensure security during mass protests.
French media said earlier that some 6,000 police would guarantee security during the protests in Paris today.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced that the Paris police would establish a so-called “supervised zone” in central Paris, put in surveillance cameras and carry out searches of protesters.
For more than two weeks, yellow-jacketed protesters closed roads and burned car wheels, raising slogans including demanding the dismissal of President Emmanuel Macron.
French President Emmanuel Macron said earlier that the French authorities understand the demands of the protesters, but does not intend to change its policy in this area.
He also promised to increase spending on energy resources and reduce the share of atomic energy by 50 percent by 2035.Macron and his wife are currently visiting the Argentinean capital Buenos Aires to participate in the G20 summit.
